Skirt marker



m i ima Jan. 5, 1954 H. A. REICH 2,664,633

SKIRT MARKER Filed April ll, 1952 INVENTOR.

Patented Jan. 5, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE' 2,664,633 A v SKIRT MARKER Harold A. Reich, New York, N. Y.

Application April 11, 195g, Serial No. 281,829

Claims.

'Y Theinvention disclosed in this patent appli- V cation is a skirt marker of the type covered in copending patent application Serial No. 118,430, iiled September '28th, '1949, now Patent No.

2,602,999 of July th, 1952, in which the adjustable gage element is in the form of a U-shaped 'loop of self-straightening, concavo-convex cross section tape loosely coniined in an upright casing and free at oneend to be drawn up through the top of thecasing to the desired height.

` Objects of the present invention are to improve on such constructions, particularly in strengthening and making the upwardly extending portion of the flexible tape more stable and to enable this upwardly extended portion of the tape to clamp and hold the skirt material while it is being marked.

Special objects of the invention are to have the holding means carried by the tape automatically crimp the material into pleats for the convenient insertion of pins or other marking devices. y

It is an object of the invention also to have the skirt clamping members so constructed that .'vation showing an embodiment of the invention asin use;

Fig. 2 is a broken vertical sectional view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a broken enlarged vertical sectional view on substantially the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on substantially the plane of line 4-4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a broken detail of a modied form of the invention and involving a flexible marking gage on the upper end of the tape which can be pinched to crease and hold the material while the marking pin is inserted through the material;

Fig. 6 is a broken part sectional plan view illustrating the action of creasing the material with this exible form of gage.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the upright casing 1 which 2 constitutesthe main support and `body Vof the device is shown as of rectangular cross section of slightly larger dimensions than the tape 'to be loosely'conned therein, and having atthe bottom an extended base 8, fashioned at the front as a pin tray 9.

A special feature of the inventionis Vthat instead of using a single length of self-straightening tape as in the patent, there are'two lengths of tape, III and II, in close `iitting, face-to-ba'ck, that is, concave-to-convex engagement so that one follows and reinforces the other.

Fig. 2 shows how the terminal ends of thes two tapes may be secured by fastening them together and to the upper wall portion of the casing by a through rivet or other such fastening I2, and this same view shows how the coextensive, dependent loop portions of the tapes interfit and closely overlie, and how the coextensive straight portions of the tapes opposite the secured ends may be extended up through a slot I3 in the top of the casing.

This confining and guiding slot may be provided, as in the patent, by a recess in the edge of a plug I4 closing the upper end of the casing and having a rounded, dependent portion I5 Within the loop and adapted to limit the extension of the tapes and to maintain suiiicient loop within the casing to properly support the extended portions.

The companion tapes, arranged as they'are, one reinforcing the other, provide a firm, stiff construction which will hold and stand firmly to any length adjusted, and this construction provides companion supports forv marking gages to clamp the material of the skirt.

Figs. 3 and 4 show these marking gages as curved, crimped plates I6, I'I, secured to the upper ends of the inner andouter tapes I0 and I I, and these are shown as having straight upper edges to guide insertion of pins or other such markers I8 through the pleats or folds of material I9 clamped between the companion corrugated portions of the plates.

Further, these straight upper edges of the creasing plates are preferably extended sui.'- ciently for placing a number, possibly three or four pins at a time.4

Additionally, these straight upper edges of the clamping gage plates may be used as rulers for drawing a line with a crayon or marking pencil.

The form of the marking gage may vary.

Thus, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the gage structure may involve a folded piece of plastic or other such flexible material 20 secured on the upper end of one or both the tapes and foldable along a vertical center line such as indicated at 2|, Fig. 5, as by being pinched between a thumb and forenger, to clasp and fold the material, as indicated in Fig. 6, and whereupon the upper edge will serve as a guide for the pin or other form of marker.

The device is of simple, rugged, low-cost construction and is easily handled and adjusted and practicalzin every way. i

The measurements, in inches or other units, may be just on the front scale Il, or on both the front and back one so as to be readable from opposite sides of the device. K l

The extended, straightened portions ofy the rules are spring tensioned together "so'as to irm- 1y hold the material between them, this Ygripping effect being insured by the confining guide at I3 through which the rules issue from the tolp of the casing, but these spring tensioned elements *.are'readilysepararble at the upper'end to perm-it .engagement of the material therebetween., and

removal.

y.To more firmly grip the clamping members .against ,the skirt material, a loop such as-indicated at 22 may be slidingly engaged about the rules, freely movable up and down over the same, erto hold the `clamping elements together or to .leave them free `for separation to .receive the vmaterialtherebetween.

What is claimed. is: v 1. A skirt marker comprising an upright 'tu-i bular: case having abase for supporting the same .in .upright relation, `a pair of self-straightening ,tape rules kloosely confined in corresponding U-shaped loopformation within said ease, means supporting said V'rules at one side of the loop kformation and 'means for guiding said tapes at the other side of the loop formation, up through `the top `of the case and for holding said rules :closely confined together, with one reinforcing the other both inthe loop formation and in the portions extended up through the top of the casing.

f2. A Yskirt marker kcomprising .an upright 'tu- .ib'ul'arcase having a `base forsupporting the s'an'ie in vi'x'pright relation, a pair of vselfstraightening ,tape rules loosely confined in `corresponding U-'shap'edloop formation within said case, means supporting said rules at one side ofthe loop formation and means for guiding saidtapes at the other side of the loop formation, up through the top of the case and lfor holding said rules closely confined together', with one reinforcing 'the other both in the loop 'formation and inthe portions extended up through the top of the casing, and gage means 'at the extended upper ends ofsaidrules.

'3. A `skirt Ymarker comprising -an upright tuportions extended up 'through 'the top of the casing, gage means at the extended upper ends vof said rules and including material gripping ,plates on the upper ends of said rules correspondingly corrugated to crease the skirt matei-iai gripped therebetween.

LA skirtrmarker comprising an upright tubular case having a base for supporting the same li'n upright relation, a pair of self-straightening tape rules loosely confined in corresponding U- shaped loop formation within said case, means rsupportingrsaid.rules at one side of the loop-,for-

mation andmeansifor guiding .said tapes .at vthe otherside'of the loop formation, .upthroughthe top of the ease and for holding said rulesclosely confined together, with one reinforcing the otherfboth in the loop formation and in theportions extended up through the top of the casing, gage means at the extended upper ends of said rules and including a flexible member bendable to crease a fold of skirt materialtherein.

Y A yskirt marker comprising an upright'tubular case havinga ease .for supporting the saine in upright relation, a pair of .self-.straightening tape rules loosely .confined in corresponding 'U- shaped loop formation within 'said case, means supporting said rules at one side of the'loop formation and means for guiding said tapes at the other side of the loop formation, up through the top of the caseand forhold'ing said rules References Cited in the file Vof this Vpatent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number `Name Date i 396,568 vHellen s Jan. 22, 1889 y21,005,850 VVtChgel`- June 25, 1935 225602399 Reich v r ..v July 15, '1952 

